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Senior Synthesis Dance Concert |
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Coyote
Run -
Opening this year's Kaleidoscope festival with a Kickoff Concert on the
campus quad, their "Listening to Coyote Run makes me think of a large... library, where every book you open gives you a view of something fascinating." - Art Ketchen, Celtic Beat Music in the Quad 12-8 pm - Rick Bruening - 1 pm - Lonesome No More Band - 2 pm - Colin's Way - 3 pm Winners of Battle of the Bands ~ Wine & Spirit 4 pm, Unified Theory 5 pm AVI Barbeque Picnic ~ 4:30-7:00 Coyote Run - Wednesday, April 16, 6:00 pm on the Quad in front of Bailey Library Free Concert Open to All. See Location on Campus Map. Quad is between Bldgs. #33 & 38. Park at the Student Union after 5 pm at no charge (next to Bldg. #42).
"More
Than A Book: An Exhibition of Artists' Books" - This
exhibit of book art, on display in On display in Bailey Library - Wednesday, April 16 through May 9 Library Bldg. #38 on Campus Map. Park at the Student Union after 5 pm at no charge (next to Bldg. #42). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
Explosive Beats:
Taiko Drumming
& Traditional Japanese Music
Concert - Thursday, April 17, 7:00 pm in Swope Recital Hall Swope Bldg. #43 on Campus Map. No charge for parking after 5 pm (next to Bldg. #42 and in lot along Keister Rd). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
"Sonia Sanchez is a lion in the literature forest. . . . This world is a better place because of Sonia Sanchez: more livable, more laughable, more manageable. I wish millions of people knew that some of the joy in their lives comes from the fact that Sonia Sanchez is writing poetry." --Maya Angelou Read more Monday, April 21 7:30 pm Advanced Tech & Science Auditorium ATSH Bldg. #40 on Campus Map. No charge for parking after 5 pm (next to Bldg. #42 and in lot along Keister Rd). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
Jillian
Mcdonald - a
Canadian artist living in New York City, she is best known
for
“Mcdonald's work
is fantastic. Her intelligent, sophisticated, and consistently
well-executed interpolation of certain, concentrated conceits of
representation spans video, photography and performance. . . . It is
work that is simultaneously accessible and deeply provocative.”
— S. C. Squibb, Art Cal Zine Friday, April 18 12:30 pm McKay Auditorium McKay Bldg. #3 on Campus Map. Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
Guaranteed Irish - performing Irish folk songs and ballads for the past 20 years, this three-man group out of Pittsburgh, PA combine button accordion, guitars, uilleann pipes, whistles and voices in their own distinctive and energetic way to make a sound that is true to the traditions of Irish music. Performing at Kaleidoscope on Main - Saturday, April 19 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm at the North Country Brewery on Main Street in Slippery Rock Listen to clips of their music!
"One Hundred Demons is . . . a work of art as well as literature, and the pages are gorgeous washes of glowing watercolor. `I really wanted to use every possible square inch,' she says. 'I wanted it to look like a Fruit Loops and sparkle paint!' Although Barry's drawings are crude, somehow they feel more powerfully real than photographs. 'People say I can't draw,' Barry remarks. 'That's something I hear all the time. It's not that it hurts my feelings, but if I can't draw, then what am I doing?' ~ Lev Grosman, Time Magazine Friday, April 18 - 2:00 pm, Spotts Auditorium Spotts Bldg. #35 on Campus Map. No charge for parking after 5 pm (next to Bldg. #42 and in lot along Keister Rd). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
Senior Synthesis Dance Concert -
Click here for a detailed description of the pieces and dancer bios
Saturday, April 19 5 pm & 8 pm Swope Recital Hall Admission: $5 adults; $3 students Swope Bldg. #43 on Campus Map. No charge for parking after 5 pm and on weekends (next to Bldg. #42 and in lot along Keister Rd). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
Tuesday, April 22 - 5:30 pm University Club Admission: $15.00 Reservations required. Call 724-738-4065.
Jason Schneiderman -
poet and
creative writing teacher at Hofstra University whose poetry has
Reading at SLAB Literary Magazine Debut - Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 pm, Russell Wright Alumni House Alumni House Bldg. #10 on Campus Map. No charge for parking after 5 pm (next to Bldg. #42 and in lot along Keister Rd). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
SRU Brass Ensemble ~ The Slippery Rock University Brass Ensemble is composed of the finest brass students on campus. The ensemble will perform music from a wide variety of styles and time periods, including works for brass ensemble and original masterpieces for British brass band. Concert - Friday, April 25 at 7:30 pm, Swope Recital Hall Admission: Adults $3; students free w/ID Swope Bldg. #43 on Campus Map. No charge for parking after 5 pm (next to Bldg. #42 and in lot along Keister Rd). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
The Zany Umbrella Circus - an exciting display of folk artistry- particularly puppetry, circus, music, storytelling, street theatre and visual arts that brings together diverse audiences for children of all ages. The Zany Umbrella Circus inspires audiences to integrate art into daily life through imagination and creativity, and never fails to put on a show filled with wonder and lots of fun! Performing at Children's Day! - Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 3:00 pm, Russell Wright Alumni House Lawn Alumni House Bldg. #10 on Campus Map. No charge for parking after 5 pm and on weekends (next to Bldg. #42 and in lot along Keister Rd). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
Libby
Larsen
- one of
America's most prolific and most performed living composers. She has
created a vast variety of works ranging from impressive orchestral and choral
scores to equally as Concert - Monday, April 28, at 7:30 pm, Swope Recital Hall Lecture - "The Concert Hall that Fell Asleep and Woke Up a Car Radio" - Tuesday, April 29, at 12:30 pm, Swope Recital Hall Swope Bldg. #43 on Campus Map. No charge for parking after 5 pm (next to Bldg. #42 and in lot along Keister Rd). Visitor parking passes required during business hours, available at University Police bldg. #30.
This project was supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania's General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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music
is undeniably Celtic in influence, yet hops boundaries and stylistic
borders with ease and a carefree nature. Come out for this evening
concert and enjoy an alternative rock twist on traditional Celtic music.
Bailey Library from April 16th through May 9th, contains a wide range of
work by local, national and international artists, and represents the
current state of the art. MaryAnn Miller, from the Experimental
Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, curated the traveling show
and will conduct a workshop on creating a non-traditional book at 1:00
PM April 16th in the Special Collections room of the library. She
will attend the opening of the exhibit that evening from 6:00 to 8:00
PM to present more information about the processes and
artists, and to answer questions.
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Featuring Ryo Shiobara, Takumi Kato, & the Bethany College Japan Outreach Trio. Seasoned
performers of several types of traditional Japanese music including the
Taiko drums,
Award, and the Poetry
Society of America’s 2001 Robert Frost Medal. Sanchez has lectured at
more than five hundred universities and colleges in the UnitedStates
and around the world. Her work is far-reaching and can be heard in
such artists as Mos Def, Jill Scott, and Rakin.
appropriating movie footage and incorporating herself into
reconfigured narratives. She garnered much attention from her video
vignette, “Me and Billy Bob,” in which she imposes herself into the
film and life of Billy Bob Thorton. 
York Times as "a work of terrible beauty."
bard
and her highness Queen Elizabeth for dinner on April 22nd,
the eve of his official birthday. Enjoy dinner, Renaissance music
by Tom Godfrey and John Marcinizyn and performances from Macbeth at this annual Kaleidoscope event.
John Marcinizyn
performs
frequently with the Ferla-Marcinizyn Guitar Duo, Sweet and Low Jazz
Trio, mezzo-soprano Daphne Alderson, and as a soloist. He teaches guitar
at Carnegie Mellon University, guitar and composition at Seton Hill
University, and teaches the music portion of the class “The Arts and
Human Experience” through the art history department at Duquesne
University.
Tom
Godfrey is principal flutist for the Westmoreland and Johnstown
Symphonies. He regularly performs with a variety of musical groups
including the Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet, Civic Light Opera,
Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, Wheeling Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and
with Gateway to the Arts, Inc. He received his musical training at the
Peabody Conservatory of Music and New England Conservatory.
appeared
in many journals and anthologies, and whose book Sublimation Point
was a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books. His readings are
comical and entertaining and allow the listener to gain an appreciation
for poetry read by the poet's own voice, making it come alive in a
different and truly enjoyable way.
impressive, but more personal vocals and
instrumentals. Her music has been praised for its dynamic, deeply inspired, and
vigorous contemporary American spirit.
